Left chicken in microwave overnight - safe to eat?

[Neverinamonthofsundays]

Roasted a chicken yesterday. Put it in the microwave to cool down and then totally forgot to put it in the fridge so it has been in there all night. Would you eat it or dump it?

I have taken many risks with food, but this would be a step too far for me!

I wouldn't, in this weather. And I am relatively lax about that kind of thing.

Depends how warm or cold your kitchen is. My parents kitchen, even when it was 28* outside, was absolutely freezing the other day (very old Victorian house with single glazing and north facing 😅)

My mother in law thinks a microwave some sort of protective force field for bacteria.

This made me 😂

She always leaves a roast chicken in it, for 3 or 4 days at a time.

Oh dear God 🤮

The worst bit is, the chicken that is left in the microwave is repeatedly heated up, bits hacked off, left in there, heated up again over the course of a few days until it’s all gone.

PIL get annoyed at me that I won’t let the children eat there, or eat anything thy bring to our house.

Dh tried to carry on that shit when we first moved in together. I firmly put my foot down.

First time she came to stay, she bought a lasagne for us. I went to put it in the fridge. “Oh don’t bother with that! Just leave it on the side, it’s been out on my side since I made it on Monday!” This was on the friday. They ate it over the weekend. I feigned a stomach ache.

They must have cast-iron stomachs. Incredible.

I have a friend who is lovely as are her family. However, they will not waste a morsel. They happen to be Church of Ireland which in Ireland brings the stereotype of being parsimonious in the extreme. This family exemplified it - teabags were honestly used, dried out & reused.

I remember visiting them a week or so after Christmas. The turkey was still sitting out, meat on the bone, and they were eating away. It had gone a bit grey & definitely smelled. It was served up to me as the main part of dinner. (Didn't touch it) I was back with them about 5 days later, the bloody turkey was still there, stinking away & being eaten 😑

Oh god @putthatdownsteve

I am genuinely feeling nauseous reading about the chicken. That's mental. I can't believe they aren't permanently ill!

I'm pretty sure your in-laws are either superheros impervious to everything or they're aliens. I thought my grandparents played a little fast and loose with food hygiene rules, but your in-laws take the cake.

I'm remembering another friend at university who k shared a house with. Tiny kitchen so we rotated cooking dinner. Mixed results.

We used to buy the cheapest meat we could, at a famous market in the city, but we bought the rankest looking mince & chicken with questionable provenance & hygiene.

One of my friends cooked everything in the microwave. She would just put all items together in a dish & whack it on full for as long as she felt it needed. She liked to buy frozen chicken legs & cook them in the microwave direct from frozen ... the sight of the legs rotating for honestly hours with blood dripping out as they thawed used to make me ill.

There was a huge row one day & at the end a minimum spend for each dinner was stipulated and an agreement that no meat was to be cooked in the microwave.

How have these people that PPs have mentioned not died from food poisoning??! The turkey one in particular!!

I would probably reheat it in a curry or similar tbh it wouldn't bother me.

Not in the summer, no!

I'm in the 'will eat pretty much anything' camp and I'd throw it. Chicken, warm weather.....nope.

Lucky day for the dogs I'd say!

Dump it. Too warm at the moment to be safe.

It went in the compost bin minutes after posting and the bin has been collected. No lucky dogs got any chicken :)

I would have curried it too. Haven't poisoned anyone yet!